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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 330 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BOURGEOIS , a

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French word, properly meaning a

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freeman of a bourg or

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BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)

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France; later the

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TERM

term came to have the wider significance of the whole class lying between the ouvriers or workmen and the

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NOBILITY

nobility, and is now used generally of the trading

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MIDDLE

middle-class of any

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COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country . In

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PRINTING (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

printing, the word (pronounced burjoice') is used of a type coming in

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SIZE

size between longprimer and brevier; the derivation is supposed to be from the name of a French printer, otherwise unknown .

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